Correction: Gecko's position should be "No Signal". I've updated this in the Chromestatus link.
On Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 12:50:47 PM UTC-7 Mike Taylor wrote: Let me amend... LGTM once you've requested Privacy, Security, and Debuggability bits in your Chromestatus entry (in the Origin Trial section). On 4/9/26 3:48 p.m., Mike Taylor wrote: Exciting stuff - LGTM to experiment from M148 to M151 inclusive. On 4/9/26 2:49 p.m., Philip Rogers wrote: *Contact emails* [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] *Explainer* https://github.com/WICG/html-in-canvas *Specification* https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11588 *Summary* HTML-in-canvas enables customizing the rendering of html using canvas with three new primitives: an attribute to opt-in canvas elements (layoutsubtree), methods to draw child elements (2d: drawElementImage, webgl: texElementImage2D, webgpu: copyElementImageToTexture), and a paint event which fires to handle updates. *Blink component* Blink>Canvas <https://issues.chromium.org/issues?q=customfield1222907:%22Blink%3ECanvas%22> *Web Feature ID* canvas <https://webstatus.dev/features/canvas> *Goals for experimentation* API shape *Origin Trial documentation link* https://github.com/WICG/html-in-canvas *Goals for experimentation* None *Risks* *Interoperability and Compatibility* This API exposes a small amount of new information which carries an interop risk, such as the pixels of gradients and form controls. *Gecko*: Negative (https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/ issues/1076) Mozilla did not object to advancing the spec to stage 2 (consensus around rough API shape), and we are actively working to address their concerns about fingerprinting and compatibility. *WebKit*: No signal (https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/ issues/630) *Web developers*: Positive (https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/10650# issuecomment-3324124682) We have positive signals from users of the DevTrial: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/10650# issuecomment-3324124682 *Other signals*: *Security* https://github.com/WICG/html-in-canvas?tab=readme-ov-file# privacy-preserving-painting *WebView application risks* Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications? *No information provided* *Debuggability* Content under canvas can be debugged like regular DOM content via devtools. *Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?* Yes *Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>?* Yes https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main: third_party/blink/web_tests/wpt_internal/html/canvas/drawElementImage/ *DevTrial instructions* https://github.com/WICG/html-in-canvas?tab=readme-ov-file# developer-trial-dev-trial-information *Flag name on about://flags* chrome://flags/#canvas-draw-element *Finch feature name* CanvasDrawElement *Requires code in //chrome?* False *Tracking bug* https://crbug.com/500967896 *Measurement* HTMLInCanvas UseCounter *Estimated milestones* Origin trial desktop first 148 Origin trial desktop last 151 DevTrial on desktop 138 Origin trial Android first 148 Origin trial Android last 151 DevTrial on Android 138 Origin trial WebView first 148 Origin trial WebView last 151 *Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status* https://chromestatus.com/feature/5172548013916160 *Links to previous Intent discussions* Intent to Prototype: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/ msgid/blink-dev/a473b17f-def6-4bb7-85ee-344947c5ecabn%40chromium.org This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status <https://chromestatus.com/>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/ chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAJgFLLtkgaP9f_Dz16zP2s3WQ_ 3iTrwdLs1k2OYCMUeZzbzUxg%40mail.gmail.com <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAJgFLLtkgaP9f_Dz16zP2s3WQ_3iTrwdLs1k2OYCMUeZzbzUxg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/bec312cd-1c0c-48b5-b2dc-452cb98bcb7cn%40chromium.org.
